I almost got finished the other night but not quite. Rained me out yesterday but I did make a couple of small adjustments per your guys inputs, but I didn't change wheel position. For the little amount plowing I do I didn't figure it was worth the trouble.
To answer some of the questions, it's actually 3x16 MF 43 plow that I bought dirt cheap, scrap price pretty much. It's been welded on in a place or two and the adjusting lever that the crank attaches to is the wrong size so it'll only let you adjust it so much with the crank, but I figure if it always plows as good as this, whats the worry. Rear tires are probably just a bit over sized for the tractor, they're actually 16.9x30's, tractor is a Ford 4830, and as you can plainly see, its very much in its work clothes.
The field is actually a creek bottom, very few rocks if any. Soil might be tad sandy, but really not to bad considering. It's about 5 acres total, maybe 6 if I really cut some trees and cleaned up around the outer edge some more. I hope to have it limed, fertilized, and sowed in Orchard Grass/Timothy by this weekend, but it'll kinda depend on the weekend. When I first started in hay a little better than 10 years ago, it was mostly fescue and weeds and I got around 450 bales first cutting and between 300 and 350 second. But it really hadn't been fertilized or limed at that point and was pretty much crap hay, decent enough for some cows.
Something that kinda links me to the field, while I don't own the property, dad's family did years ago. Dad is 83 and he spent his youth plowing the very same ground with a mule. My goal is to buy all of the old farm, the plowed ground, the field above the road(about 4 acres when all cleaned up), and probably about 20 or 30 acres of the hills in the background, but the current owner is trying to sell lots off of it. Thankfully no luck yet, but at $20K for a 1/3 acre lot, I'm not surprised. I'm hoping he realizes what it would mean to me and lets me have it for a fair price, but I'm not holding my breath. Appreciate all the input and hope you guys enjoyed the pics.
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